Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-06-18

fore purchasing elsewhere.
Rev. Mr.. Wagner, a young
Baptist minister from Doyle, has been
visiting among friends here during
the last week.
Mr.. Ralph Gafin left on Wednes-
day morning for Chicago and other
points in Illinois, to visit friends and
relatives.
Mr.. Carson, the accommodating
depot agent, is fencing off a farm
down in depot bottom, and will en-
bark in pea culture,
-Laces and Trimmings of every
description from 5 cents per yard up,
at the cheap cash store of Holden
pyl Bros.
Nh. j. @. Ramsey, Jr. returned on
Thursday of last week from Knox
vile, where he had been in attend
ance upon the University Of Tonnes
see.
We are requested to announce
that there will be a lecture given to
the colored Sunday school at Pleas
ant Hill next Sunday, " on the ruins
of Fount Hill"
You can get the celebrated Shaw
& Albright custom made shoes at the
cheap cash store of Hoodenpyl Bros.
They warrant every pair.
Sparta Expositor: Elder H. L.
Walling, of McMinnville, will preach
at the new church neal MI. Elijah
Denton's, six miles on the Smithville
road, next Sunday at II a. m.
Mr.. Geo. J. Goodrich and wife,
of Galveston, Texas, arrived last Sat
urday, and will spend the summer
here as the guests of Mrs. A. C.
Beech.
Judge Robt. Cantrell, of Leba-
non, will lecture in McMinnville on
prohibition at 3 o'clock Sunday after
noon, June 25th, also at night. The
places will be announced later.
Maj. j. w. Thomas, President of
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis Railroad, passed over the Nc
Minnville branch Thursday on a
tour of inspection.
Miss Maggie Wallace left on
Wednesday morning for Nashville to
join Miss Halle Morford, and togeth-
err they will visit some old school
mates in Kentucky for a couple Of
weeks.
At a special election held for the
corporation of McMinnville Thurs
day, Mr.. c. G. Black was elected to
fill the vacancy in the County court
occasioned by the death of Mr.. c.. c..
Smith.
We regret very much a sad ac-
cident to the daughter of Mr.. Geo.
H. Hash, of Rock Island. On Fri
day of last week she was kicked on
the jaw by a horse, and the jaw bone
was broken in two or three places.
The Lodge ofGoOd Templars Of
this place will give an ice cream sup
per in the park next Tuesday night.
Music will be furnished by the War
rem House Band. Everybody invited
to come and enjoy apleasant evening.
Tom Russell, col, Capt. Harris
right hand brakeman, stopped off
here this (Friday) morning, and was
married to Miss Josie Vaughan, col.
Capt. H., with his face wreathed in
his usual genial smiles, was the first
to salute the dusky bride, and groom
at the depot.
The colored Baptist Church of
this place will have a grand pic mic in
the Ben LomOnd College grove Satur-
day, June 2jth, followed by a festival
in their church at night. They will
have addresses at the pic mic from
several prominent speakers, both
white and colored.
Our new City Marshal, Mr.. O. f.
Argo, has had a force of little negro
urchins at work all this week pulling
weeds from the park and streets, and
clearing the streets Of rocks and trash
generally. They were arrested for
vagrancy and Otder misdemeanors,
and given this task to work out their
fines. All good citizens will heartily
commend Mr. Argo for enforcing the
vagrant law.
"A fishing party composed OF
Messrs. ]. B. Biles, j. G. Biles, Thos.
Drake, Butler Smith, Jno. Duncan,
Joab Miller, Thos. st. John, and Jno.
Roberts, made a very successful haul
last Thursday, in horse shoe bend, on
Caney Fork river. They captured